Why I want Michael Mann’s Emails
(Publisher’s Note: Dr. Schnare is the lead attorney in the UVA-Mann email case.) Recently, Nature Magazine published an editorial suggesting that “access to personal correspondence is a freedom too far” and that Michael Mann, whom they favorably compare to Galileo, should have his emails, written and received while he was a young professor at the […]
Putting Wind on Trial
Why would an environmental law center put wind on trial? And what does a court case challenging Colorado’s renewable energy mandates have to do with Virginia? The answer: Wind is not affordable and it is not clean.
Death By Wind
On February 7th, the federal bureaucracy announced its plans for off-shore wind energy. To mark the occasion, Virginia Governor McDonnell stated that the Commonwealth must use “a diverse portfolio of fuels, including . . . offshore and onshore wind . . . . At the same time we must also maintain reasonable energy costs and […]
A Tea Party Environmental Platform
The Tea Party folks aren’t going away anytime soon, and their concerns about government spending, government regulations and government arrogance have caught the imagination of a large plurality of voters. But what does the Tea Party think about the environment? And what should it think? They aren’t the same thing …
Virginia Off-Shore Gas & Oil Fact Brief — May 2009
On February 19th, 2009, Governor Kaine asked the Federal government to delay oil and gas exploration off the Virginia coast. Attorney General Bob McDonnell and Lieutenant Governor Bolling, in separate letters to Interior Secretary Salazar explained why it is in the interest of Virginia and the United States to maintain the current exploration schedule, a […]
The Economy and the Environment
In an internal analysis of the U.S. economy and federal environmental spending, Center for Environmental Stewardship Director David Schnare conducted a brief review of the relationship between the health of the economy and its effect upon environmental spending. Notably, significant changes in the former do not appear to much affect the latter. The leaderwship of […]
Climate Change and the Uncomfortable Middle Ground: The Geoengineering and ‘No Regrets’ Policy Alternative
This paper, delivered at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, offers the contours of a middle ground on the climate change issues. It calls for geoengineering as a means to put off the most catastrophic potential effects, at least for a few decades; an immediate reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) where those reductions […]
Sensible Growth in Virginia — Sptember 2001
Part of the Jefferson Institute’s “Campaign 2001 Briefing Book” supplied to all candidates, this paper looks at the conflicting goals of enticing new businesses into Virginia while managing that growth in a way that protects our environment, and offers proposals for realistic policies based on fact and not emotion.